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Chief executives have approved digital technology budgets and updated strategic plans, now the Line of Business leaders and their IT counterparts must address the tactical execution for 2015 and beyond.

In hindsight, 2014 was a pivotal year for cloud service platform adoption. Regardless, the trend will accelerate next year. International Data Corporation (IDC) has shared their 2015 predictions about the global cloud computing platforms market, based upon their latest…

“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.” This powerful concept, actually misattributed to none other than Albert Einstein, is significant in both its imagery as well as its relevance to life on planet Earth. Our survival is tied to evolution, advanced through the act of cross-pollination – the perpetual recombination of existing genetic matter that creates something new, later to be mixed up once again in the circle of life.

Last week, with the stroke of a pen, Microsoft changed the Enterprise computing landscape forever.

For well over a decade, IBM and Microsoft have engaged in a struggle for leadership in the future of Enterprise computing. Both achieved penetration in most if not all of the Fortune 1000 companies. They competed with their respective developer platforms - .NET versus Java / WebSphere. And they competed with their operating systems - Windows Server versus Linux.

Facebook has a long history of pushing the envelope when it comes data privacy and user rights, and one of the most egregious examples was its research on “emotional contagion,” where user news feeds were manipulated to study their reactions to negative posts. It may have sounded innocent enough to the data scientists in Menlo Park, CA, but the reality was that this Web overlord distorted its customers’ emotional states in order to better understand how to profit from them.

The other day on the way from yet another airport to yet another hotel, I was chatting with the taxi driver who was interested in what I did. Inevitably, the taxi driver was not really a taxi driver, but just doing it as casual work while he looked for a real job. He had a degree in electrical engineering, but like a lot of young people was finding it hard to get that first job since he lacked experience.

The Shellshock vulnerability, a flaw in the Bash software component (the command line interpreter for Unix-based systems including Linux and Mac OS X), has been wreaking havoc on computers, servers and devices and has the potential to affect hundreds of millions more.

Everyone is talking about Shellshock, bringing back talks of the recent Heartbleed OpenSSL bug, which exposed system memory (protected by the vulnerable versions of OpenSSL) via the Internet. The only similarity between…

As big data technologies like Hadoop become widely deployed in production environments, the expectation is that they will meet the enterprise requirements in data governance, operations and security while integrating with existing data center infrastructure. The technology is not contained within a relatively small, controlled IT environment, but is interfacing with broadly available analytics applications in the business unit. Data within the Hadoop cluster environment is fluid, and big…

As one of the contributors to Black Duck’s eighth annual Future of Open Source Survey, the industry’s leading indicator of open source software (OSS) industry trends, JFrog was pleased to be able to help show the world the true impact of open source software. This was the first year that we decided to take part in the survey.…

For businesses large and small, IT must move from being a cost center to a strategic partner, delivering tangible value and differentiation. Cloud solutions are a critical component of this evolution, allowing businesses to reduce capital expenditures, scale capacity up and down quickly to meet usage spikes, and respond promptly to new business requests.

This IT evolution, or revolution rather, was initiated by the introduction of public cloud services like Amazon EC2/S3. Users are no…

Those who ask, “what is the state of IT in today’s cloud-driven world?” are posing the wrong question. That’s because today’s enterprise IT has no state; it is, in many aspects of the word, stateless.

IT is in a state of massive transformation -- on a scale not seen since the advent of client-server computing over two decades ago. Traditional, legacy, stateful systems are uneasily coexisting with new, cloud-based solutions that are stateless and agile -- two things that traditional…

A decade ago, most companies faced financial challenges related to the dot-com bubble burst. Today, we’ve just gone through what was likely the worst financial crisis we’ll see in our lifetime. Whatever the reason for the challenges, it’s clear that some technology vendors have been unable to respond to the economics of the times. From an IT perspective, the fact that budgets are staying flat or growing slowly doesn’t jibe with the expensive, ever increasing costs of infrastructure…

I recently fielded a query from an acquaintance about “customers” and their desire for limited liability for products based on open source projects The request was for extensive “liability insurance” from patent trolls and I assume copyright infringement as well.

These days, the market is forcing technology companies to transform themselves into service companies. This reality rings true for traditional industry giants from IBM to Samsung, and is evident in the success of startups from Box to PayPal. It’s no longer enough to configure a server, manufacture a mobile phone or be good consultants; companies have to create and offer innovative, dynamic services as a core value.

Over the past 10 years, open source software has grown considerably in reach and scope. The LAMP stacks that once merely served up Web pages formed a foundation for the systems that today deliver elastic compute and storage, and the evolution of new projects shows no sign of stopping.

No small measure of this success has been built on the foundation of CentOS Linux. The freely-available operating system has long provided open source…

What does one do when quality, quantity, and complexity collide? For that is the conundrum of large enterprises facing the vast resources available in the world of open source software (OSS). GitHub, the largest online code-hosting site, lists 10.2 million repositories, and Black Duck, the company for which I work, tracks 30 billion lines of open source code.

Included in these vast resources are some of the world’s most important software innovations -- Linux, the most popular…

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” As an entrepreneur who has spent the past two decades evangelizing the value of measuring software, I passionately believe in Peter Drucker’s observation; However, I am compelled to share my own more fundamental observation that, “You can’t measure what you can’t find.”

I spend my time talking with leaders across the globe about the value of measurement and I believe that over the past two to three years there has been a tectonic shift…

Shower moments. We’ve all had them. Even Archimedes had one. Suddenly, all the dots connect and an idea forms. (Yes. I know. Archimedes actually had a “bathtub moment” when he discovered how to measure the volume of a solid, but the principle is the same.) These soapy moments of creativity feel as though they come from nowhere, but do they really? Does any form of creativity emerge in isolation?

Let’s consider the dots; that is, those bits of datum that hang suspended in mental space…

Many businesses today are focused on leveraging the information inside their own data warehouses in the quest to gain a competitive advantage, and rightly so. McKinsey has hailed the analysis of large data sets as “underpinning new waves of productivity, growth and innovation” while a recent Gartner study stated that “there is real substance behind the hype” of Big Data. However, is it a mistake to focus exclusively on data inside the firewall?

Having worked alongside thousands of software developers at Fortune 500 companies worldwide, one thing is sure: every organization does software development differently. Why? Developers aren’t paid for working within the ideal development cycle, but for solving a business problem. In today’s development world, success is measured by the resiliency and flexibility the cycle can withstand against larger business initiatives.